Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have closed the legal sequel to their divorce with an extra-judicial custody agreement for their six children. Two years after their so publicly celebrated marriage ended in a no less public Rose War, they avoided a public trial for custody.
How exactly their agreement looks is not known. However, as early as June, a court ordered the actress to grant her three physical and three adopted children closer relationships with her father. If Jolie should not meet the requirements, she could lose the primary custody she enjoyed so far, it was then in media reports. One can probably assume that she will keep that now - and Pitt will be given better access to the children.
Jolie and Pitt got closer in 2004 during joint shootings. He probably left because of the affair of his then wife Jennifer Aniston. Nevertheless, Jolie and Pitt soon became Hollywood's brightest dream couple.
The "super-pair": Too good to be true
Their publicly celebrated relationship ushered in the "supercouple" hype - media-staged dream relationships of celebrities who seemed so perfect as couples to put their names together into collective names: Brad and Angelina became the advertising construct "Brangelina".
Behind the scenes that had probably looked different for a long time. When Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, there was a sudden talk of Pitt's allegedly dark side: cannabis and alcohol consumption and associated tantrums. Jolie justified the divorce with concern for the welfare of the children.
Among other things, Jolie accused Pitt of beating his then 15-year-old son Maddox on a flight from France to Los Angeles. He had also failed to pay maintenance payments.
He has to pay because he earns more and has more on the high ropes than she does: Pitt, with $ 30 million last year, has ten million in front of his wife. His accounts are said to be around $ 214 million, with only $ 178 million left.